The Wrap-Up: This Week in Music + 12 Cuts
The Wrap-Up brings you the 5 largest music news stories of the week as well as information about new album and music video releases. This week: album and movie trailers, a genre-bending mashup, and more insight into Tom DeLonge’s future with Blink-182. HEADLINES OF THE...
The Wrap-Up brings you the 5 largest music news stories of the week as well as information about new album and music video releases. This week: album and movie trailers, a genre-bending mashup, and more insight into Tom DeLonge’s future with Blink-182.
On Sunday night Smash or Trash Hall of Famers Twenty One Pilots performed with rapper A$AP Rocky. The collaboration consisted of a medley of Twenty One Pilot’s Blurryface tracks “HeavyDirtySoul” and “Lane Boy” as well as “L$D” and “M’$” from A$AP Rocky’s AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP. Explaining the collaboration and their relationship with A$AP Rocky prior to their performance, Tyler Joseph of Twenty One Pilots told MTV News:
In late January, Blink-182 bassist Mark Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker revealed that they no longer wanted Tom DeLonge to be part of the band. Since his departure, DeLonge has not spoken to Hoppus and Barker. In an interview with NME, DeLonge revealed: “I loved [Blink-182], I started that band. That’s me. I named the band – that shit came from me. [Being in Blink] cannot be the only thing in my life, or can it be the absolute priority. But can it be a part of my life? Absolutely. I love that band. I could not do anything that I’m doing now without the fans of that band. If I did not have the fans of Blink, I would not exist.” However, when asked if he would return to Blink if Hoppus and Barker were to ask, he answered: “No, no, it’s much more complex than that. It has to map up with everybody’s life. I think if all the roads that we’re travelling connect at the same intersection, which is usually a location and a date, then we’re good.”
HEADLINES OF THE WEEK
1. Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard shares new album
Alabama Shakes frontwoman Brittany Howard released a ten-song, self-titled album with her side project Thunderbitch, which includes members form Nashville bands Fly Golden Eagle and Clear Plastic Masks. You can stream the entire album at their website and watch the trailer for the album above. And if you still want more music from Howard in the near future, Boston Calling revealed this week that Alabama Shakes are part of the festival’s Sunday lineup.2. More new music from Metric
Metric have released another new song from their upcoming album Pagans in Vegas. “Lie Lie Lie” is the fifth track the band has shared with us before the album’s September 18 release date. Metric also recently shared that they plan to release another album next year. According to Spin, Pagans in Vegas has more complex and electronic arrangements while its successor “favors simpler, acoustic arrangements.”3. Arcade Fire release new documentary trailer
Arcade Fire released a new trailer for their documentary The Reflektor Tapes, which will feature the development of their 2013 album Reflector. You can watch another trailer here to ease wait for the documentary’s September 23 release.4. Twenty One Pilots perform with A$AP Rocky at the MTV Video Music Awards
There’s two types of people who have a freedom to just be themselves. The first type of person is a tastemaker — someone who’s ahead of the game and knows where the next fad is going, and they can be themselves because they don’t really follow anyone, they’re setting the trends. I would describe A$AP Rocky as one of those guys. And then the other form of someone who knows how to be themselves is someone who is just OK with being ignorant to what’s happening — trying not to follow something but trying to create something that’s your own and it may not be cool to everyone, it may not fit sometimes, but it’s still yours. … When those two people come together, Rocky and us performing, it’s going to be a cool moment.
5. Tom DeLonge wants Blink-182 to remain “a part of [his] life”
In late January, Blink-182 bassist Mark Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker revealed that they no longer wanted Tom DeLonge to be part of the band. Since his departure, DeLonge has not spoken to Hoppus and Barker. In an interview with NME, DeLonge revealed: “I loved [Blink-182], I started that band. That’s me. I named the band – that shit came from me. [Being in Blink] cannot be the only thing in my life, or can it be the absolute priority. But can it be a part of my life? Absolutely. I love that band. I could not do anything that I’m doing now without the fans of that band. If I did not have the fans of Blink, I would not exist.” However, when asked if he would return to Blink if Hoppus and Barker were to ask, he answered: “No, no, it’s much more complex than that. It has to map up with everybody’s life. I think if all the roads that we’re travelling connect at the same intersection, which is usually a location and a date, then we’re good.”